Mission accomplished? Meanwhile Musk's Starlink's V2 sats experience de-orbit-worthy 'issues' Satellite comms operator OneWeb says its constellation is complete, with the latest launch bringing its total of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to 618, a…
Lees meerWithout publicly accessible code, there would be no AI chatbot Opinion When OpenAI released ChatGPT 3.5 in late November 2022, no one expected much from the new release. It was just a "research preview," explained Sandhini Agarwal, an AI Policy res…
Lees meerIt's finger-linking.... what happened to my $$$? Police in India announced late last week they arrested four individuals accused of running fake websites in which they sold fraudulent franchises, including for fast-food chicken restaurant, KFC.…
Lees meerBenioff gets a pat on the head and an undefined reprieve Salesforce and Elliott Investment Management have issued a joint statement saying the activist investor, which took a multi-billion-dollar stake in the CRM giant in January, is not nominating …
Lees meerA consumer campaign group's food hall of shame: sticky tape instead of loo rolls, dog chews for chicken breasts What’s on your lunchtime menu today? For some poor sucker it might be toilet paper that provides the wrapping for their sandwich, or perh…
Lees meerThe consumer campaign group's food hall of shame: sticky tape instead of loo rolls, dog chews for chicken breasts What’s on your lunchtime menu today? For some poor sucker it might be toilet paper that provides the wrapping for their sandwich, or pe…
Lees meerAll your previously Snipping Tool cropped images aren't, basically Updated Microsoft is said to be preparing to fix the high-profile "aCropalypse" privacy bug in its Snipping Tool for Windows 11.…
Lees meerPlus OIG finds Uncle Sam fibbed over Login.gov In brief A team of hackers from French security shop Synacktiv have won $100,000 and a Tesla Model 3 after subverting the Muskmobile's entertainment system, and from there opening up the car's core man…
Lees meerGet your staff and processes lined up and ready to go Interview The woods are full of IT sales teams promising the moon when it comes to locking down databases, yet all the tech fixes in the world won't help you if the staff don't know what to do.…
Lees meerByteDance with the devil if you dare Opinion As country after country bans TikTok from official systems, it’s fair to ask what’s so dodgy about a social network filled with dance crazes, makeup advice and cats.…
Lees meerMoving premises can have all manner of hidden traps. Here's one to watch for Who Me? Welcome once again, gentle reader folk, to that buffer between the weekend and the workaday we call Who, Me? in which Register readers turn raconteur and recount t…
Lees meerHardware configuration also important to get query times down, says global research publisher Developers and architects considering deploying graph databases should spend more time on defining schema than they initially think, according to one multi…
Lees meerMoving premises can have all manner of hidden traps. Here's one to watch for Welcome once again, gentle reader folk, to that buffer between the weekend and the workaday we call Who, Me? in which Register readers turn raconteur and recount tales of t…
Lees meerNature probes published research as it emerges journal paper allegedly used to entice $120m cloud deal Special report A Google-led research paper published in Nature, claiming machine-learning software can design better chips faster than humans, ha…
Lees meerFirst big government expo since COVID sees CEOs galore jet in Some of Big Tech's top execs have sung China's praises at the 2023 China Development Forum – an annual government-organized event that returned from its COVID hiatus over the weekend.…
Lees meerMeanwhile the US contemplates drastic action The government of France has banned TikTok – and all other recreational apps – from phones issued to its employees.…
Lees meerALSO: Web traffic to Microsoft Bing up 15.8 per cent since launch of GPT-4 bot, and more AI In Brief Google did not train its internet web search chatbot Bard on text from private Gmail accounts, a spokesperson confirmed to The Register.…
Lees meerGee, why could that be? Nah, not that. AI contender might just want better SmartNICs Chinese RISC-V upstart StarFive has revealed that Chinese web giant Baidu has become an investor, to advance use of the open source processor design in the datacent…
Lees meerALSO: Indian space agency completes OneWeb constellation; Singapore warns on AI weapons; AUKUS tech pact advances Asia In Brief Although Chinese smartwatch shipments declined in 2022, Huawei, Apple and Oppo saw growth. Meanwhile Huawei's smartwatch…
Lees meerSearch aspired to the the command line to the world, but ML models may get there first Analysis OpenAI this week introduced ChatGPT plugins, a way to extend the scope of its chatbot language model beyond the slurry of internet training data to besp…
Lees meerMay fly in the summer, with some presumably pretty nervous pilots Boeing's first mission carrying astronauts to the International Space Station aboard its Starliner capsule, scheduled for April, is now delayed until summer due to the risk of overhea…
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